#2: Unh, taste like dog shit. #1: Must be dog shit. Good thing we no step in it

- Cheech & Chong

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That's awesome. I love oddball stories like this.

Windermere FL

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Yep that story will keep me out of Kentucky for forever now.

Reston VA

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Kentucky meat shower

The Kentucky meat shower was an incident where large chunks of red meat fell from the sky in a 100 by 50 yard area near Rankin, Bath County, Kentucky, for a period of several minutes on March 23, 1876. The phenomenon was reported by the New York Times and several other publications at the time

The meat appeared to be beef, but two locals who tasted it stated that it tasted like mutton, venison, or lamb.

Initially, the "meat" was identified by a Mr. Leopold Brandeis writing in the Sanitarian as Nostoc, which he described as a type of vegetable matter. When Brandeis passed the meat sample to the Newark Scientific Association for further analysis, this led to a letter from Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton appearing in the publication Medical Record stating that the meat had been identified as lung tissue from either a horse or a human infant ("the structure of the organ in these two cases being very similar.") The makeup of this sample was backed up by further analysis, with two samples of the meat being identified as lung tissue, three samples were of muscle tissue, and two of cartilage.

Out of the many theories for an explanation of this phenomenon, the most likely appears to be that a large pack of buzzards flew over the area after having eaten a couple of freshly dead horses, and when one of them spontaneously disgorged itself, all the others (as apparently is customary amongst buzzards) followed suit

~eww so sayeth rabbit~

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Well whoodathunk that cheese is such a hot commodity:

huffingtonpost.c om/2011/10/22/cheese-most-stolen-food_n_1024309.html

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Living in wine country its the same with the wine...thousands for some bottles..grapes that taste like chocolate....lol its funny how effective the marketing is.

Ukiah CA

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It's pretty hard to find a good Serbian donkey's milk cheese these days, but there's no way I'm spending that kind of money for a Wisconsin cheddar that's 20 years old. What the hell did they do- just find those blocks behind some bad cheese curds? I didn't think cheddar was aged 20 years.